“Letting someone go first, saying manners, and helping others” is what kindness means to Little Telethon Star Jordan Blair.

The year five student and his classmates at St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary School learnt all about kindness and sharing during a lesson with Education Minister Sabine Winton to launch new Telethon school resources.

The resources will provide teachers with ready-to-use activities that are aligned to the curriculum to teach kids values like kindness, fairness, and inclusion as well as teaching students how people can work together to improve communities.

Other key components of the initiative include the Telethon student ambassador program to encourage kids to practise leadership in meaningful ways and providing fundraising opportunities that can be adapted to suit individual schools.

While Ms Winton went back to her roots as a teacher on Friday morning to put the Telethon resources to the test, the students came away with lots of examples on how to be kind to others.

“I learnt about how you should share with other people like your brothers and sisters, and to always show kindness and try to not to be rude,” year five student Jack Staltari said after the lesson.

An example of kindness to him was “encouraging other people”.

Ms Winton said the resources were teaching kids how to have the values of Telethon every day not just during the weekend of fundraising.

“Telethon is alive and well in classrooms each and every day, and these teaching resources allow teachers to really complement what they already do,” she said.

“I think sometimes kids don’t realise how naturally generous and kind they are, and so these resources really provide an opportunity for them to acknowledge their own sense of worth.”

St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary School principal Rebecca Clarke said the resources being attached to the curriculum made it simple for teachers to teach the next generation about the spirit of Telethon.

“I think our schools now are so inclusive that it’s really important that we make sure that inclusivity is there all the time, and just to have these resources to add to a teacher’s bank is fantastic,” she said.

“Having Jordan as our Telethon Star, it made it real for our families and made it really tangible for our children that it’s really important for us to support the wider community and not just our school community.”

The resources are available for free download at telethon7.com/education.